Donors from San Mateo County and around the world have raised $543,000 for Big Basin Redwoods State Park to assist recovery efforts following damages from the CZU Lightning Complex Fire in August. Sempervirens Fund and Save the Redwoods League, two nonprofits dedicated to protecting redwoods in the Bay Area, collected donations from the public through the Big Basin Recovery Fund. Both organizations then donated the money to Big Basin Redwoods State Park. Sempervirens Fund said around 200 of its more than 1200 donations have come from San Mateo, Santa Clara and Santa Cruz counties. The park has been closed since fire season when most of the park and its facilities were damaged. Cal Fire CZU Unit Chief Ian Larkin announced just this week that the fire was officially under control, meaning it is fully extinguished, and there is no longer any danger of reignition.
Los Altos org trumpets donations for restoring Big Basin Written by Megan V. Winslow
Donors distraught by the recent destruction of California’s oldest state park by wildfire have given $543,000 toward recovery efforts, a Los Altos-based nonprofit revealed last week.
Sempervirens Fund of Los Altos and Save the Redwoods League of San Francisco solicited donations to complete necessary restoration work at Big Basin Redwoods State Park in Santa Cruz County following the ignition of the 86,509-acre CZU Lightning Complex fires in August.
The funds also will help California State Parks initiate long-term planning for rebuilding Big Basin, a process scheduled to begin in 2021. The fires claimed nearly all the buildings and infrastructure within the park’s 18,000 acres.
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Big Basin Redwoods State Park is getting more than $540,000 to help it recover from a wildfire that tore through the park’s ancient redwood forest last summer, thanks to donations from two long-standing nonprofits.
Sempervirens Fund and Save the Redwoods League, which have supported the park since its founding in 1902, are contributing the money to begin a years-long rebuilding effort at California’s oldest state park.
The first installment, about $200,000, was distributed Wednesday to help remove fallen or damaged trees that could present a hazard to other parts of the charred forest in the upcoming winter storms, according to
Los Altos org trumpets donations for restoring Big Basin
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Redwood trees soar above Big Basin Redwoods State Park before the CZU Lightning Complex fires in August. The wildfires destroyed a large portion of the park’s buildings and infrastructure.
Donors distraught by the recent destruction of California’s oldest state park by wildfire have given $543,000 toward recovery efforts, a Los Altos-based nonprofit revealed Wednesday (Dec. 16).
The Sempervirens Fund of Los Altos and Save the Redwoods League of San Francisco solicited donations to complete necessary restoration work at Big Basin Redwoods State Park in Santa Cruz County following the ignition of the 86,509-acre CZU Lightning Complex fires in August. The funds also will help California State Parks initiate long-term planning for rebuilding Big Basin, a process scheduled to begin in 2021. The fires claimed nearly all the buildings and infrastructure within the park’s 18,000 acres.